"It is often said that autistics can sense other people's energy, and the slightest shifts and changes in them can throw us off balance and leave us feeling confused and frustrated."

#Autism #Autistic #LateDiagnosed #Neurodivergent

From 'Lost & Now Found: a guide to understanding and accepting yourself for late-discovered autistic adults' by Kate Laine-Toner and Suzi Payton

@KatyElphinstone very very this... SOmeone in my house can be angry about a thing, I go up where they are, wlk through that energy, and oh my goodness, now I'm not necessarily as angry as they are about, exactly this thing, but I feel anger, and I can't do anything with it. Sorry for the run on sentence, it was an autistic thought stream :)
@cordova5029 @KatyElphinstone Is there an actual correlation between autism and this kind of empathy? I do wonder if there is which direction it goes. Is it more likely for a sensitive to be neurodivergent, or is it more likely for a neurodivergent person to be a sensitive, or is there some sort of direct link that requires one to be one to be the other? Hmmm. Or am I thinking too deep into this, does one not actually need to be a sensitive in my terms to feel that kind of thing?

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Not at all, and yes there is a correlation between being autistic and being a sensitive.

A strong one. There's hyper sensitivity in areas such as sensory, empathy, and imagination.

There's also evidence of telepathic phenomena with autistic people. Often between mother and child, for example. Recently there was a podcast 'the telepathy tapes'. There's a study on this, too... Lief Ekblad, I think the name was.

@cordova5029